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| Stabilizing selection that maintains a genetic disease in a population because heterozygotes resist an infectious disease |
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| Changes in the prevalence of a characteristic that reflects differential survival of individuals better adapted to a particular environment |
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| A population in which two extreme expressions of a trait are equally adaptive |
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| Genetic drift when small groups found new settlements, partition a subset of the original population's genes |
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| A change in a gene pool due to the random loss or addition of alleles through migration |
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| All the genes in a population |
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| Changes in gene frequencies caused by separation of a small group from a larger population |
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| Collection of deleterious alleles in a population |
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| Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium |
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| Maintenance of the proportion of genotypes in a population from one generation to the next |
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| A type of genetic drift. An event kills many members of a population, and a small number of individuals restore its numbers, restricting the gene pool |
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| When extreme phenotypes are less adaptive than an intermediate phenotype |
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